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Vernonia, Columbia County, Oregon Volume 23 Number 11 • Grade Quintet Takes Second At Hill Sat. Loggers meet Medford Today Construction THOSE WHO Of New Line ARE IN IT Now Possible Overtime Point by Westport Defeats Timber Toppers Scoring on a foul throw during overtime playoff of a tie defeated the Washington Timber Toppers Saturday night at Hill Military Academy’s grade school basket ball tournament held March 9th and 10th. The Topper’s schedule was such that they played only one game Friday and three Sat urday, the last being for the championship. Washington led Westport by two points almost to the final gun when a high pass accidently swished the net to tie the teams. The fowl throw during overtime won the game for Westport. An all-star team selected by referees and coaches listed Bob by Ray unanimously for guard position. He was also high-point man of the tournament. Box score for the champion ship game is: 18 Westport Vernonia 17 4 DeGandi Bass 0 F 4 Eilertson Shepard 2 F 3 Martin Hershey 5 C 6 Twom Ray 10 G 1 Sutfin Riggins 0 G 0 Jackson Roberts 0 S County News MAYOR URGES WAR HONOR ROLL ST. HELENS — A war honor roll and memorial to contain the names of all St. Helens and trade area men and women in the armed services, and all of those from Columbia county, if pos sible, has been proposed by May or R. W. Simeral to the St. Hel ens city council. Mayor Simeral’s suggestions received favorable comment by other council members, and if public support is assured it is ex pected that the project will get underway soon. SOAP FACTORY CLOSED BY DRAFT RAINIER — Rainier Soap fac tory shipped a carload of soap to the army this week and has closed down due to probable drafting of Kenneth Huyke, pro prietor. DISTRICT TEAMS ARE DEFEATED CLATSKANIE — Coach Geo. Sindberg took off his overcoat, the first time this year at a game and it was a championship affair too, and the C.H.S. Tigers went to work on Dayton high Tuesday night and won the first leg of the three game series 37- 22. Dayton had won the “B” title for Yamhill, Multnomah, Clack amas, Polk and Marion counties and Clatskanie had the Colum bia, Clatsop, Washington and Tillamook title under its belt. 15 Named to Roll oi Honor The compiling of grade records at the end of the last six-week’s period at the high school lists 15 students as receiving honor roll mention. These students are: Seniors—Delores Bergstrom, Phyllis Bonislaw, Tommie Lou Holcomb, Glenn Justice, Shirley Ray and Marvin Turner; Jun iors—La Rue Moon; Soph omores—Miriam Corll, Dorothy De Hart. Cora Dusenberry, Elna Morris and Mildred Wolff; Fresh men—Joyce New, Phyllis Scott and Florence Tisdale. SIGN ERECTED A new neon sign was erected Tuesday for the garage to be opened in the Early building on Bridge Street. Greenwood Motors will be the business name of the concern. Thursday, March 15, 1945 ENLISTS IN WACS When war workers are too busy to go to the clinic, the clinic comes to them. Mobile chest X-ray units visit Industrial plants tor mass X- raying of workers. By means of the X-ray tuberculosis can be discovered In Its early stages when no symptoms are evident However, before symptoms appear the health of the Individual can be wrecked and the health of his fellow workers endangered. Christmas Seal funds finance mass X-ray surveys. Red Cross Subscriptions Near $2,000 Point Here Contributions to the Red Cross from this area have reached $1,830.90 as of Tuesday of this week but solicitatiops are con tinuing and it is expected that the amount will exceed this fig ure before the drive ends. Mrs. Harry Culbertson, local chairman of the campaign, identified the amount as being only that for Vernonia and the rural area sur rounding and not for other parts of the Nehalem Valley. Not included is the amount of $223 from Natal Grange auction and amounts from Mist, Birken- feld, Wilark and Pittsburg. Mist residents will enjoy a pie social, auction sale and program this Sat urday night, funds from the af fair to be turned over to the Red Cross. Indications are that more care- Army Reopens ASTP Program The secretary of war has an nounced that enrollments for the army specialized training reserve program, which were closed as of December 31, 1944, will be re opened. A qualifying test will be ad ministered in the Vernonia high school on April 12. Wallace Mc Crae, local high school principal, has accepted the appointment of the army service forces as super visor of this qualifying test. Mr. McCrae announces that young men whose 17th birthday falls between October 1, 1944 and August 31, 1945 are eligible to take the test provided they meet the education and citizenship re quirements. All eligible young men, either in or out of school, are urged to notify the supervisor immediately if they wish to take the test. Thp A.S.T.P. program is an army college training program and is being reopened by the war department because it realizes the importance of a college ed ucation for our young men, both in war and in peace, and urges all eligible young men to avail themselves of this excellent op portunity. ful soliciting is being carried ojt in some areas than has been true previously. One lady, when asked for help, said that this was the first time her district had been canvassed for the Red Cross since 1918. Children's Clinic Planned Friday A children’s clinic for the ex amination of speech, hearing and sight defects is planned for Fri day, March 16th at the Wash ington grade school at which time children from Nehalem Val ley schools will receive attention The children to * be examined have been designated by Miss Ruth Peffiey, county health nurse, who has determined these defects. Three state education de partment specialists, one for each type of defect, are to be present to make thorough examinations which will require about 30 min utes for each child. The educatioal welfare of the children will be benefited due to knowledge to be gained from the examinations which will give teachers recommendations as to the methods of aiding handi capped children with their lessons and will also make recommenda tions to parents on proper meth ods of treatment. Specialists attending will be: Dr. Leon Lassers, speech cor rection; Ethel Neste 11 Fortner, supervisor of education of the visually handicapped; and John E. Taylor, supervisor of educa tion of the deaf and hard-of-hear ing. ELECTED PRESIDENT Joy Willard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Williard, was elected president of Sigma Kappa sorority this week on the University of Oregon campus. She will assume her duties at the spring term. West Oregon Electric direct ors met Tuesday evening here to hear a report that sufficient ani mal units, as required by the war production board, are avail able to make possible electric line construction between Pitts burg and Mist. That section does not now have electric service but will have as soon as the con struction can be completed. The animal unit requirement has been established by the WPB to control the construction of new transmission lines in farm ing areas. A survey of the Pitts burg-Mist area has been made by REA which determined that sufficient units were in evidence to receive a WPB okeh for ma terials for the construction. R. L. Adams, temporarily hired several months ago by the West Oregon directors to con struct new lines in the district, has received notice to report for duty in the armed services Mon day. The directors agreed at their Tuesday evening meeting to retain J. W. Nichols as man ager of the cooperative. New Magazine Started Here Many people in this area and other parts of Columbia county have received the first copy of a new magazine which is being started here by C. Collins Gup- till. The magazine entitled “The Dual Shorthorn” deals with cattle raising and will be devoted to advancement of that industry in this area. The first issue, which includes 12 pages of news and advertising was mailed last week and will continue to be mailed every two months. Mr. Guptill is editor and publisher of the magazine. Sewing Postponed Red Cross sewing has been postponed until the first of April, Mrs. Harry Culbertson announc es this week, and will not be held Friday at the high school as us ual. Vernonia has completed 75 kit bags, the recent Red Cross sewing project. Brother Freed from Jap Prison Internment Mrs. Walter Olinger has re ceived word of the liberation of her brother, J. R. Blalock, from Los Banos camp in the Philippine Islands in a message relayed to her from her father, R. Y. Bla Groundwork for the starting lock, Concord, Calif. A personal of a ladies auxiliary of the Vet letter shows he is at Montinglupa, erans of Foreign Wars will be Rizal, and is in good physical started this Sunday, March 18th, condition. He was bom and when Mrs. Erickson, past dis raised in Oregon and went to trict president of the auxiliary, China as a missionary in Jan uary 1937, leaving China for will be here to speak. This meeting is called for 3 Manila when the war started. He p.m. at the V.F.W. hall at Second states in a message which was Street and Bridge and women dated Feb. 24th: “God has surely cared for me. interested in belonging are asked to be present then. Only qual O how true are His promises. I ifications are that those wish have spent almost a year at Los ing to* belong must be 16 years Banos. There I enjoyed health of age or older, and be related and strength and even during the to a service man who has par months of starvation and death, ticipated in foreign service, such by doing work on the wood cut as being his mother, wife, sis ting crew, received more rations, ter, etc. Those ladies who join thus keeping more fit than most. “By now you will long have at the time the unit is organized known of our rescue by the U.S. will become charter members. V.F.W. Post to Sponsor Auxiliary Nichols Hired to Replace Adams as REA Coop Manager forces, an event the like of which is probably unprecedented in his tory. Suffice it to say I was among them. We were really at wits end, starving, while our soon massacre was undoubtedly being planned by the Japanese. Yes terday morning I felt especially moved to prayer and before day light was on my knees, not in petition, but thanking God that aid was at hand, though I knew not how. At daybreak while cook ing my meager lot of unhusked rice, out of the sky fell the para troopers. Bullets sped wildly thru our flimsy barracks, and amid spreading flames we were ordered to pack our valuables and leave. There at the edge of the camp the astounding amphibian tanks met us for women and children. Among many others I walked to the Laguna de Bay where we al so were ferried down the lake arriving at our present refuge in the evening.” Mildred Enneberg, Mist, is the latest Columbia county resident to enlist in the woman’s army corps to serve with the army medical department, it is an nounced by WAC recruiting headquarters, 614 S. W. 11th Ave., Portland. Pvt. Enneberg was graduated from Vernonia high school and attended La Sierra College be fore enlisting in the WAC. She has selected Letterman General Hospital, San Francisco, for assignment after she has completed her basic training and hospital training, at Fort Ogle thorpe, Ga. Pvt. Enneberg enlisted in the WAC in answer to an appeal for additional women from Columbia county to help fill medical pla toons to serve in army general hospitals. MORE LETTERS RECEIVED The Vernonia Service club is still receiving letters from those who are in the service thank ing the club for its Christmas gift remembrances. Recent let ters of "thanks” have been re ceived from Cpl. Veldon Parker w<ho is in Italy and who also sends his regards to Vernonia people; Ens. Jack Olin; Pvt. Ralph McDonald who is driving a truck in France; and from Percy Bergerson, merchant mar ine who was glad to be included on the club’s list of service meh. Club members have been re quested by Mrs. D. E. Ostlund, chairman of the Columbia county Camp and Hospital Service com mittee, for a lamp or game table for the sun room at Barnes Gen eral hospital. She also mentions that carpenter tools are still be ing requested by hospitalized ser vice men at Astoria. ADVANCED Robert Bodell has received an advancement in rating his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Bodell learned this week. Bob has been stepped up from S2c to Sic. His parents also learned that he is now in the hospital at Seattle following injury while stationed in the Aleutians. Anyone wish ing to write him should send their letters to: Sic R. G. Bodell, U.S. Naval Hospital Ward 25, Seattle, Wash. IN TEXAS T. Sgt. Elmer Michener is now stationed at Camp Maxey, Texas, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Michener have learned. AWARDED AIR MEDAL Staff Sergeant Paul A. Gray, 20, of Clatskanie has been a- warded the Air Medal “for mer itorious achievement while par ticipating in aerial flight”. Waist gunner on a I Sth air force flying fortress, he is a member of the oldest heavy bombardment group in the Mediterranean theatre of operations. Sergeant Gray, a graduate of Vernonia high school, was em ployed by Clark and Wilson be fore he enlisted in the air forces on July 4, 1942. Later he at tended the aerial gunnery school at Laredo, Texas where he won his gunner’s wings. The organization to which he has been assigned has flown more than 400 combat missions, bombing enemy installations in almost every Axis-dominated sec tion of Europe, from bases in England, North Africa, Russia and Italy. He flew his first high altitude bombing mission with the 8th air force in England on August 4 when the forts attacked Schwerin, Germany. Since then he has successfully flown six combat missions. More “Those Who,” page 6 Vernonia Team Makes First Tourney Visit Tournament Play Write« Finis for Six In School Athletics Coach Orile Robbins and his ten-man state tournament squad leave Vernonia at noon today for Salem where tonight at 7:30 they meet the highly favored Medford Pearpickers. This is the first visit of a Vernonia high school basketball team to the state tournament in the 26 years that' Willamette University has sponsored this annual state-wide classic. Six Play Last Games The state meet will mark the final appearance in a Vernonia uniform for the six senior mem bers of the squad. They are Jack Nance and Freddie Larson, the back court specialists; Dan Rol lins and Ralph Sturdevant, who man the front line with Duke Byers, sophomore star; and Mar vin Turner and Duane Lane re serve forward and guard respec tively. The remaining four mem bers of the squad who will form the backbone of next year’s team are Jack Riley, pinchhitting jun ior forward, and three soph omore«, Duke Byers, starting for ward, and Don Parker and Owen East, youthful reserves at center and guard. The prep classic will be noth ing new to coach Orile Robbing, dean of state tournament coaches, who is making his third visit in quest of the state’s highest pren basketball honors. He piloted Amity high teams to Salem in 1937 and 1938. Manager Bobby New will accompany the team in his usual capacity. Loggers Meet Medford First First round games pit Washing ton high of Pcrtland against Eu gene Axemen at 3:00 o’clock; Newberg against Baker at 4:00 o’clock; Vernonia against Med ford’s block tornado at 7:30 and conclude at 8:45 with the Hills boro Spartans opposing the Ore gon City Pioneers. The outconie of these games will determine the Friday and Saturday games lead ing to the championship finals Saturday night. In winning the right to repre sent Districts No. 13 and 14, the Loggers won the local district by -defeating the defending champion St. Helens Lions in a spirited district race beginning January 5. The Gresham Gophers were then eliminated from the path to Salem in a hotly contested inter-district playoff by winning two games out of three. A large following of local fans is accompanying the team to Salem despite the warnings from the tournament management of housing and ticket shortages. Lots Purchased For Building A new owner for the vacant lots at Second and Bridge Streets is announced this week after the purchase was completed Mon day at St. Helens by Jewett A. Bush. The lots have been vacant for many years following de struction by fire of the buildings formerly located there and for the past year or so have been used as storage for the collection of scrap iron. Present plans are to build a modern fireproof building on the location to provide space for a furniture store and probably two other smaller businesses. Mr. Bush, in announcing his purchase, stated he believed there was a good future for Vernonia and that business men should be more active in furthering their own interest by the organization of a commercial club.
